Ἰωάννην 6:49

Greek Modern Translation

Οι πατερες σας εφαγον το μαννα εν τη ερημω και απεθανον·

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
οι πατερες υμων εφαγον το μαννα εν τη ερημω και απεθανον

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἔφαγον ⸂ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα⸃ καὶ ἀπέθανον·

Tischendorf 8th Edition
οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἔφαγον ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τὸ μάννα καὶ ἀπέθανον·

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
οι πατερες υμων εφαγον το μαννα εν τη ερημω και απεθανον

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
οι πατερες υμων εφαγον εν τη ερημω το μαννα και απεθανον

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fathers: John 6:31

and are: Numbers 26:65, Zechariah 1:5, 1 Corinthians 10:3-5, Hebrews 3:17-19, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:15 - It is manna Proverbs 9:5 - General John 4:13 - Whosoever 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness,.... All the while they were in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan; this was their only food on which they lived, during their travels through the wilderness. It is observable, that Christ says, not "our fathers", but "your fathers"; for though Christ, as concerning the flesh, came of these fathers, yet in every sense they were rather theirs than his; because regard may be had to such of them more especially who ate the manna as common food, and not as spiritual meat, as typical of the Messiah, as others did; and whom these, their offspring, did very much resemble. Though perhaps the reason of the use of this phrase may be, because the Jews themselves had used it in John 6:31, and Christ takes it up from them.

And are dead. This food, though it supported them in life for a while, could not preserve them from a corporeal death, and still less from an eternal one: for some of them not only died the first, but the second death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your fathers did eat manna - There was a real miracle performed in their behalf; there was a perpetual interposition of God which showed that they were his chosen people.

And are dead - The bread which they ate could not save them from death. Though God interfered in their behalf, yet they died. We may learn,

1. That that is not the most valuable of God’s gifts which merely satisfies the temporal wants.
2. That the most distinguished temporal blessings will not save from death. Wealth, friends, food, raiment, will not preserve life.
3. There is need of something better than mere earthly blessings; there is need of that bread which cometh down from heaven, and which giveth life to the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 49. Your fathers did eat manna - and are dead. — That bread neither preserved their bodies alive, nor entitled them to life eternal; but those who receive my salvation, shall not only be raised again in the last day, but shall inherit eternal life. It was an opinion of the Jews themselves that their fathers, who perished in the wilderness, should never have a resurrection. Our Lord takes them on their own ground: Ye acknowledge that your fathers who fell in the wilderness shall never have a resurrection; and yet they ate of the manna: therefore that manna is not the bread that preserves to everlasting life, according even to your own concession.